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From: jmfolsom <jmfolsom@ecentral.com>
To: <charding@co.weld.co.us>
Date: 6/7/00 6:15AM
Subject: Right To Farm Covenant
Dear Commissioners: Please permit me to suggest ways that might make
Weld County's"Right To Farm Covenant" more effective as far as advising
new home buyers and making them actually aware of their relationship to
agrciultural operations in their neighborhood. At present developers
are required only to place the Covenant on their final plat. In most
cases the home buyer never sees this plat or if he [she] does, doesn't
necessarily read this notice.
I would like to suggest that the County require that the developer be
required, as a condition of approval, to have a notification of the
Covenant signed off by the purchaser at the sale closing of the
property. This would be similar to HUD's lead base paint and other
advisements it requires to be signed by purchaser's at HUD closings.
As another way, at least, it would be an improvement of purchaser
notification if the Covenant would be required to be included in the
protective covenants of the development as a condition of approval.
Another aspect of this Covenant awareness problem is with developments
in municipalities near agricultural lands. Most municpalities have no
Right To Farm Covenants so that there is no advisement to purchasers in
any form of their relationship to surrounding agricultural operations.
It might be considered to amend the IGAs with these municpalities to
require inclusion of the Covenant in some form [preferably as suggested
above] in their approval requirements for new developments in their
jurisdictions. Thank you, John Folsorn
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